An incorrect fish-like thing is a strange, already-cooked fish that can only be fished from the coast of Evil Bob's island of ScapeRune. It is obtained by fishing from the wrong fishing spot, and thus it will not be uncooked into the fish Evil Bob wants.

If the player tries to eat it, they are prompted with the message: "It looks vile and smells even worse. You're not eating that!"

If the player tries to bank the fish-like thing in the deposit box, it will simply disappear. It will not appear in the bank after the event.

For a few days after Jagex changed the way right-clicking works on teleport objects on 7 October2009, players could teleport from ScapeRune to RuneScape using the Pharaoh's sceptre. If they had the fish-like thing in their inventory during the random event, they kept it when they teleported. On RuneScape, the raw fish-like thing had no use other than for show. It could not be cooked, but it could be banked. The fish-like thing has since been removed from players' banks.